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Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, Libertad Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm
Description

Lustrous and very good defined crystals of pyrite with evident uncommon diploidal faces. The main form is the cube {100}, modified by the diplohedron {321}, the octahedron {111} and the pentagonal dodecahedron {210}. A coloured model has been created to clarify these forms.

Ex. Gerard Vogel Specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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